"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin."
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Source: James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.134, Collector's Library
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